Research Projects

Residential Segregation in Bogotá across Time and Scales

Start Date: December 2008
End Date: February 2010

Researchers
Maria José Alvarez-Rivadulla, Assistant Professor of sociology at the University of Rosario, in Bogotá, Colombia
Lissette Aliaga-Linares is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas, at Austin

Description
This project describes socioeconomic residential segregation in Bogota over time at different spatial scales, comparing spatial and non spatial measurements. It will be both a substantial and a methodological contribution to the study of segregation in the city of Bogota. Using census and cartography data from 1980s to the present, the researchers will (i) track changes over time, (ii) compare segregation at different scales (e.g. locality, neighborhood, etc.), (iii) compare spatial and non-spatial segregation indexes, (iv) identify “hot spots” or very homogeneous areas of the city, and (v) suggest hypothesis about the processes behind the spatial clustering of population and the changes in that clustering.